UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA SAVANNAH DIVISION

TRAMAINE OWENS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) CV421-300 ) SHERIFF JOHN WILCHER, ) ) Defendant. )

ORDER Pro se plaintiff Tremaine Owens filed this

action alleging “improper shower timing increments.” See doc. 1 at 5-6. The Court granted him leave to proceed in forma pauperis and directed him to return the necessary forms. See doc. 13. He has not returned the Consent to Collection of Fees from Trust Account form in compliance with that Order. See generally docket. The Court, therefore, presumes that Owens desired to voluntarily dismiss this case. See doc. 13 at 6. A district court retains the inherent power to police its docket and to enforce its orders. Link v. Wabash Railroad Co.,

(1962); Mingo v. Sugar Cane Growers Co-op,

, 102 (11th Cir. 1989); Jones v. Graham,

(11th Cir. 1983); Brown v. Tallahassee Police Dept.,

(11th Cir. 2006). Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a complaint may be dismissed either for failure to prosecute or for failure to comply with an order of the

court. Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b). Additionally, this Court’s Local Rules provide that the Court may dismiss an action for want of prosecution when a party has “willful[ly] disobe[yed] .. . any order of the Court” or for “[a]ny other failure to prosecute a civil action with reasonable promptness.” §$.D. Ga. L.R. 41.1(b), (c). Accordingly, this case is DISMISSED. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to CLOSE this case. SO ORDERED, this 14th day of December, 2022.

( Lntghond le CHRISTOPHER L. RAY UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA