Lorica begins the process of having her original body disinterred so she can retrieve her implants. They weren't hard to install, she was never a biotinker, so she should be able to use them in this body too, which seems equally clumsy.

The tinkertech was actually removed and put into storage before her body was buried - the PRT can get it to her once they find a Tinker to handle ongoing maintenance for it.

The implants weren't supposed to need maintenance, since they were supposed to be in her body. She should be able to just slice and shove.

Is her power informing her of this? Use of tinkertech without dedicated tinker maintenance is very dangerous and not recommended, much less tinkertech which requires... impromptu self mutilation. They must recommend against that in the strongest of terms. 

[Here] is a helpful PRT Branded e-brochure on the dangers of using unmaintained Tinkertech.

Also, [here] is an overproduced video where Boston Protectorate member Velocity talks about the dangers of self-harm. 

It's hers, she built it! She couldn't build it again but she remembers how she installed it and how she designed it and her bot has confirmed!

If she can't build it again than presumably she also can't perform maintenance on it? PRT regulations are very clear on the dangers of unmaintained tinkertech. 

They're letting her dad wear his suit!

They can't comment on the maintenance routines for a specific piece of tinkertech.

(If she asks her dad he'll inform her that there's a Protectorate Tinker in Boston who is technically responsible for maintaining the suit.)

Fucksake. Is their strongest possible terms recommendation actually binding on the disposal of her personal effects given that they have acknowledged she is who she says she is?

Their legal team will get back to them about that, probably within the next week.

(Translation: at least a month.)

She can of course have all her non-tinkertech things.

She has two million dollars. She is going to hire her own lawyer to demand her shit back.

Sure, as soon the PRT finishes processing her bounty she is welcome to do that.

Yeah, no, there are lawyers who work on the expectation that you will have money later, right, she's getting one of those.

This apparently scares the PRT into being marginally quicker - her reward money is delivered and they dig up a tinker to check the devices over for maintenance. She can have them back, though installing them without a suitable tinkervdedicated to their maintenance is against  regulations.

(Lorica's lawyer informs her that this is not the sort of rule the PRT enforces, though they might bring it up if she's ever on trial for something else. Worst case it'd mean a fine.)

Regulations that apply to civilian rogues? She is not at present a Ward. Since she died. She reinstalls her disability accomodations.

There are absolutely regulations that apply to civilians, tinkertech blows up or otherwise catastrophicly fails far far more often than basically anything else. The PRT is aware that they can't stop tinkers from making their own tinkertech or supplying it to their team but what they can do is require someone qualified is responsible for making sure the tinkertech doesn't blow up. Or at least, that's what they can do when the person asking didn't just kill one of the most feared villains in the world. They don't want bad PR after all.

Well, now that her implants are where they... newly belong... she can again walk and chew gum at the same time. Or, more relevantly, walk and grocery shop at the same time.

Completely coincidentally, Tattletale (or Lisa, given that she's in her civvies) had the very same idea!

"Bet you'll enjoy that one,"  she says, pointing at a block of jalapeno pepper jack cheese.

Sure, she'll put it in her basket.

"You know, I coulda got your stuff out of lockup without so much rigamarole if you'd asked."

"I won't pretend it didn't occur to me."

"I meant by getting a Tinker to sign on to nominally be responsible for it without actually doing anything. I know a guy."

"I'll keep in mind your guy-knowing." She gets a pint of sour cream.

"That brand's crap, it's worth splurging for the bougie stuff."

"I don't really have bougie tastes."