{"id":356871,"date":"2026-06-11T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:17:07","slug":"bakersfield-police-to-hold-dui-license-checkpoint-on-friday-june-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356871\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police to hold DUI, license checkpoint on Friday, June 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department will hold a DUI\/driver\u2019s license checkpoint on Friday, June 12, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. within the city limits.<\/p>\n<p>Officers will be looking for drivers with signs of alcohol and\/or drug impairment. Other officers will be checking for proper licensing, momentarily delaying drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically trained officers will be available to evaluate drivers suspected of impaired driving, which includes not only illegal drugs, but also many over-the-counter medications. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the checkpoint is provided from a grant received through the California Office of Traffic Safety, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department will hold a DUI\/driver\u2019s license checkpoint on Friday, June 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-356871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}