Trying to update the UpdateAnnotation api -- why does my ItemQuery not set the fields I pass in?

I’m trying to add a feature to the UpdateAnnotation api, whereby I can convert an annotation to a region. It looks like this may already be an intended feature, given:

if cmd.IsRegion {
	itemRight := item
	itemRight.RegionId = item.Id
	itemRight.Epoch = cmd.TimeEnd / 1000

	// We don't know id of region right event, so set it to 0 and find then using query like
	// ... WHERE region_id = <item.RegionId> AND id != <item.RegionId> ...
	itemRight.Id = 0

	if err := repo.Update(&itemRight); err != nil {
		return Error(500, "Failed to update annotation for region end time", err)
	}
}

The issue however is that if you don’t pass in all of the expected values, the API will null them out or set them as 0. To fix this, I’d like to pull the expected fields from the Annotations table using:

query := &annotations.ItemQuery{
	OrgId:  c.OrgId,
	AnnotationId: annotationID,
}

items, err := repo.Find(query)

For some reason though, this never sets the fields appropriately on queryquery.annotationId is always 0. I’m not sure why. Any help is appreciated.