renegadepress.com receives an anonymous message that leads Zoey to investigate a group of girl bullies in her school. But when the investigation makes her the girl gang's next target, she faces mounting pressure to drop the story. Instead, Zoey exposes the truth about the bullies on renegadepress.com and the bullies are suspended from school.

Jack discovers that his sister Crystal is corresponding with a potential cyber-stalker. When Jack lures Crystal's stalker out of hiding in order to expose him on renegadepress.com, Crystal gets wind of it and arranges to meet him earlier, still believing he is just a 13 year-old kid. What she encounters is indeed a 20-something stalker. Luckily, just before he can abduct her, Jack and Zoey arrive with their renegade cameras in tow to catch him red handed.

Zoey is fascinated by ‘bad boy' Ben and decides to write an article about life ‘on the wild side' in order to get to know him better. Zoey is entranced by Ben and on the thrill of acting like someone different than she is. When she goes to a party with Ben and gets miserably drunk, she lies to Jack and realizes she's gone too far.

Carmen discovers a story about a girl in her dance class who is getting breasts implants for her sixteenth birthday. Amanda is so depressed about her normal teenage body that her parents and her psychologist support her decision to have major cosmetic surgery. Carmen is amazed that Amanda would consider the operation but Amanda's obsession with image makes Carmen reexamine how much attention she and her friends pay to their looks.

Sandi uses the guise of doing a story on skateboarding as an excuse to get close to Kat, a skater girl he has a crush on. Vince wants Sandi to tape his skateboard ‘trick' for the Renegade website, but actually he wants to crash on purpose, hoping the video clip will get picked up by Xtreme crash shows. Sandi, thinking it'll impress Kat, agrees. But when Vince gets Kat realizes Sandi was in on it and feels betrayed.

At Ben's group home his friend has lapsed into a coma after being restrained by staff. Ben wants Zoey to investigate and get the guard who restrained his friend fired or charged. Zoey takes up the cause but realizes the system also holds responsibility for the staff not being properly trained. When her report refuses to point the finger solely at the guard, Ben feels let down.

A kid at school dies and the family claims it was due to a heart attack. When Jack hears it might be related to solvent abuse, he decides to investigate. Zoey knows the family, and isn't sure she wants Jack harassing them, but Jack argues his research shows that the majority of sniffers are white kids, yet you never hear about it in the mainstream news. Everyone thinks sniffing is just a native problem, but the bottom-line is it is everyone's problem.

Zoey is startled to learn her friend Melanie belongs to a local pro-anorexia website and because of stress at home the site almost seduces Zoey. When she learns that the web master is actually bed ridden and under constant nursing care because of her disease, Zoey realizes how dangerous the sickness can be.

When Carmen's basketball coach is forced to resign, Carmen decides to investigate and uncovers allegations of sexual harassment. The allegations come from the star basketball player who wasn't getting enough playing time, ruining her chances at a basketball scholarship. The coach appears to be innocent, so Carmen writes a story for renegade. When the basketball star reveals she really was harassed, Carmen goes to Jack and Zoey to retract her story -- she got it all wrong.

Jack's cousin Reg comes to stay with the Sinclair family, claiming he got out of the street gang he belonged to. But when the gang wants Reg to come back to ‘the family' they threaten Jack and Crystal. It's up to the Sinclair family to find Reg a safe place to stay and off the streets.

An indignant Zoey decides to do a story about privacy after she learns the school is planning on installing surveillance cameras. To fight back, Zoey plans on planting a camera in the staff room, but when she tests the camera at home she accidentally discovers her mother, Linda, had an affair -- and her dad knows about it. Zoey is upset she was kept in the dark, and her renegadepress story argues surveillance cameras are not an alternative to honest and direct communication.

Carmen is courted by a big modelling agency. She and the agent hit it off and sparks fly. It's then that Carmen learns from another model that the agency expects the young models to have sex with managers and clients while overseas in Europe. Carmen confronts her agent and gives up her dream of a big modelling contract.

renegadepress airs a submitted video of a girl at West Central doing an awkward dance. Kids start to parody the tape and the girl reveals she never sent it in. Jack takes it off the website, but not before dozens of other sites tamper with the original picture and spread it across the web. The humiliated girl has to drop out of school and a guilty Jack contemplates shutting down renegade. Meanwhile, Zoey has a run in with the Principal and is suspended from school, and the season ends with Jack taking up her cause... on renegadepress.com.