A native of New Jersey, Harrison Sheppard worked as journalist and city editor for the Daily News of Van Nuys, California, from 1999 to 2014, where he covered numerous secession movements around Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The collection documents Sheppard's work as a reporter for the Daily News, and covers the grassroots efforts of the citizens of the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and Los Angeles' Harbor City area to secede and form independent cities between 1999 and 2002.

A native of New Jersey, Harrison Sheppard worked as journalist and city editor for the Daily News of Van Nuys, CA, from 1999 to 2014. He has also written for several papers in the suburban Boston area and for the Los Angeles Times. The Daily News, founded in 1911, focuses its news coverage on the San Fernando Valley. Sheppard's assignments for the Daily News included serving as Sacramento Bureau Chief, as well as covering Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and the San Fernando Valley secession drive of 1999-2002.

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