You couldn't. The code he was convicted under is the code he was convicted under. What they do is go back and look at the section as it was back when he was convicted, and that is the criteria they use to evaluate the information. The DOJ cannot go back and ask the court to amend his conviction to the current code section. In fact, if they did this for every convicted individual in the state, it could be an expensive proposition every few years when/if they modify the Penal Code.

If PC 647(a) was the "annoy or molest a child" section back when he was convicted, then it has since been re-numbered to PC 647.6. There is nothing that can realistically be done about amending this. Since (I believe, off the top of my head) PC 647.6 is registrable, and 647(a) is not, I am assuming that this restructuring is what happened.

- Carl