As we enter the new year CHP and local police forces have been setting up sobriety checkpoints all over the Bay Area.  Most DUI arrests at checkpoints go unchallenged in Court.  This lack of challenge to these warrantless stops has resulted in officers going beyond what the courts have authorized them to do at checkpoints. 
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Pleasanton police in coordination with other law enforcement agencies impounded 15 vehicles during a sobriety checkpoint Monday night, according to the Police Department.
The checkpoint was set up on westbound Bernal Avenue at Pleasanton Avenue from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., police said.
Livermore and Dublin police, the California Highway Patrol and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office [...]

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