Opinion
No. CIV S-11-0674 MCE EFB P.
September 19, 2011
ORDER
To: The Sheriff of Solano County, Attention: Inmate Trust Account, 500 Union Avenue, Fairfield, California, 94533:
Plaintiff is a detainee in the Solano County Jail proceeding without counsel and in forma pauperis in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This proceeding was referred to this court by Local Rule 302 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1), plaintiff must pay the $350 filing fee required by 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). Plaintiff is assessed an initial partial filing fee of 20 percent of the greater of (a) the average monthly deposits to plaintiff's trust account; or (b) the average monthly balance in plaintiff's account for the six-month period immediately preceding the filing of the complaint. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). Thereafter, plaintiff must make monthly payments of 20 percent of the preceding month's income credited to his trust account. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(2).
The Sheriff of Solano County is required to send to the Clerk of the Court the initial partial filing fee and thereafter payments from plaintiff's prison trust account each time the amount in the account exceeds $10.00, until the statutory filing fee of $350.00 is paid in full. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(2).
The Clerk of the Court shall serve a copy of this order and a copy of plaintiff's in forma pauperis application upon the Sheriff of Solano County, Attention: Inmate Trust Account, 500 Union Avenue, Fairfield, California, 94533, and deliver a copy of this order to the Clerk's financial division.
So ordered.