LORAIN, Ohio — A sobriety checkpoint is scheduled for Friday night in Lorain as part of an Ohio State Highway Patrol impaired-driving enforcement effort.

The checkpoint will be conducted on State Route 57 in Lorain from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced that OVI checkpoints would be held Friday night in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Wayne and Sandusky counties. Another OVI checkpoint is scheduled for Saturday in Richland County.

Sobriety checkpoints are permitted under the U.S. Constitution under certain circumstances. In the 1990 case Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that properly conducted sobriety checkpoints do not violate the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. The court weighed the government’s interest in preventing impaired driving against the brief intrusion on motorists and upheld checkpoints conducted under established procedures rather than at the unrestricted discretion of individual officers.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol uses OVI checkpoints as part of its efforts to deter and detect impaired driving.