# Originality, duplicate and claim-boundary review

## Distinctness

The package is scoped to a frontline missing-lock or suspected-tampering report. It separates reported, observed, established and released states; preserves the physical condition and time-sensitive business-system records; and gives one incident owner control over customer communication, authority direction, repair and release.

The closest owned works are the roll-up-door isolation playbook, the gate access-incident playbook, the camera-outage plan and the facility observation-coverage map. Those pieces govern equipment movement, gate malfunction, camera availability and architectural observation coverage. This article addresses a customer-facing unit-security report and avoids repair direction, equipment diagnosis, camera-system restoration or generalized AI/data architecture.

## Live duplicate screen

- Proposed Jared canonical: `https://jaredmodstorage.github.io/writing/missing-lock-incident-response-self-storage/` — HTTP 404 at the September 14 preflight.
- Same proposed slug on modSTORAGE: HTTP 404.
- Exact title, slug, `missing lock`, `suspected unit tampering`, `forced entry` and `cut lock` screens returned no conflicting current daily article, ACR calendar title, live Jared sitemap item or live modSTORAGE sitemap/feed item.
- One existing article mentions lock cuts only as an example of outdoor work during wildfire smoke. It is not a security-incident response method.

## Rights and reuse

- This is an original Jared-authored owned-site treatment created for the September 14 morning operator lane.
- It is not an adaptation of an active external assignment, submitted exclusive manuscript or publisher-accepted contribution.
- The article and tool are assigned to the Jared personal authority site only. They must not be duplicated on modSTORAGE WordPress.

## Claim boundary

- Every named facility, person, unit, timestamp, condition, system record, authority and outcome in the Lakeview Row example is fictional.
- A reported missing lock is not labeled a break-in, theft or forced entry. The article does not identify a suspect, determine loss, assign liability or promise insurance coverage.
- The article does not direct an employee to enter a unit, confront a person, collect physical evidence, conduct a forensic examination, repair hardware or override law enforcement.
- Federal sources provide general reporting, evidence-management, logging and privacy context. They do not establish site-specific legal duties, policy compliance, certification or a self-storage industry standard.
- No modSTORAGE or Facily.ai customer, deployment, product capability, incident, performance, financial result, adoption, market position, indexing, coverage or recognition claim is made.
- The author bio uses only the governed roles: Chief Operating Officer of modSTORAGE; CEO and Founder of Facily.ai.