What alternatives to birth certificate when ID expired?

my friend of 8 years asked me to research how he might get his birth certificate from sacramento because he let his ID expire. he’s over 50 and like me, adopted. from his info i’m thinking illegitamate too, and i already knew he’d grown up with a series of “dads.” basically it’s complicated. so i thought: hey, he’s had the same job that i got him when i left for hawaii seven years back. it’s a group home job. you must be fingerprinted, get crim background check, etc before you can even work alone at a group home. obviously they did all this with him seven years ago. he says he can’t cash his work checks because his ID is expired, and oregon doesn’t want to renew it now until he produces his authorized birth certificate. his rent’s paid up till next month, but i note the sacremento public records (we’re both cali born) says it takes 3 months (!) to send you a birth cert. steve’s ready to pay a lawyer. i was about to google—i’m sure there must be a simpler, faster way——when i says to meself, hey! wait! flutherites are the most outstanding problem solvers ever. (really). so… anyone got a quick, inexpensive solution? i mean, his work has his friggn fingerprints and xeroxes of his (then-current) ID. that won’t suffice? and his young adult daughters can couch for his ID, as can many others knowing him for nearly 2 decades.