George Zimmerman reacts after a not guilty verdict was handed down in his trial. (Photo: AP) Story Highlights Zimmerman also tried to order an infrared home-security device 
 
 He told deputies he needed the items for his protection 
 
 The records show Zimmerman regularly left the county to visit lawyer in Orlando 
 
 George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the murder of unarmed black Florida teen Trayvon Martin, sought to buy a bulletproof vest and a home-security system while out on $1 million bond, according to records released Thursday. 
 
 The Seminole County, Fla., Sheriff's Office released a 57-page log obtained by USA TODAY that recorded Zimmerman's activity last year and this year while he was connected to a GPS system via ankle monitor. 
 
 Zimmerman was court-ordered to GPS monitoring as a condition of his pre-trial release, said Kim Cannaday, public information officer of the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. The log let authorities know if Zimmerman entered the forbidden zones of the Orlando Sanford International Airport and anywhere outside of Seminole County. The log was active from July 6, 2012, through July 13 of this year. 
 
 Zimmerman was acquitted last month in the fatal 2012 shooting of Trayvon, 17, in the case that whipped up emotions among civil rights advocates who said the teen was a victim of racial profiling. Civil rights organizations and members of the public have been pushing for Attorney General Eric Holder to pursue civil rights violations. 
 
 For the most part, the recordings of Zimmerman's log are uneventful. They indicate Zimmerman called in every other day to check in between 10 a.m. and noon, as instructed by authorities. They also indicate that he left the county every few days to see his lawyer in Orlando, and more often as his trial date approached. 
 
 The log says that on July 14, 2012, Zimmerman telephoned the sheriff's office and said he and his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, were getting new cellphone numbers because the media had obtained the cellphone number of his wife. 
 
 On Aug. 8, 2012, according to the log, a sales representative for a police supply store contacted the agency to say Zimmerman wanted to buy a bulletproof vest and infrared security device. The log says Zimmerman indicated the infrared device "was an extra layer of security at the point of entry at his residence." 
 
 The log later indicates that Zimmerman confirmed to authorities he was trying to buy the vest and the security device. 
 
 The log also says that Zimmerman regularly had complaints about the discomfort of the device, which authorities would then adjust. ||||| George Zimmerman ordered a bulletproof vest and an infrared home security device last year while he was out on bond awaiting his murder trial in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, according to records released Thursday. 
 
 Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, was acquitted of any crime last month for killing 17-year-old Martin last year in Sanford, Florida. The case set off racial tensions in the U.S. 
 
 The records logged by Seminole County police monitoring Zimmerman during his release show that he checked in with deputies by telephone every two days and that he and his wife, Shellie, moved at least three times last year. 
 
 Under the terms of his release on $1 million bond, Zimmerman was required to stay in Seminole County except to visit his attorneys in a neighboring county. He also was required to wear a GPS device, which was monitored by deputies. 
 
 Deputies were notified about the bulletproof vest and home security device from a sales representative from a police supply business. When asked about them, Zimmerman said he had ordered the items for his protection. 
 
 Zimmerman's visit to a sporting goods store also piqued deputies' interest last August. They reviewed the store's security tape to make sure Zimmerman hadn't stepped foot in an area where the store sells firearms. ||||| This was the plan to move George Zimmerman out of the Seminole County Jail and make him disappear: He would be outfitted in concealed body armor and driven away by an armed guard in a rental vehicle that had been checked to make sure no one had secretly placed a GPS tracking device on it. 
 
 He would be whisked away to a tourist resort, according to a recently-released “jail escort plan,” where he would then go into the handicapped stall of the men’s bathroom and change into a new shirt, hat and glasses. 
 
 Zimmerman, facing second-degree murder charges for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, would then walk to a different vehicle and be driven to a safe house. All the while, bodyguards would watch for paparazzi, “aerial” and “negative counter surveillance” and be on the lookout for people wanting to harm or humiliate their client. 
 
 The plan was put together by an Orlando private detective whose company, Associated Investigative Services Inc., last week filed suit against Zimmerman and his attorney, Mark O’Mara, claiming they owe $27,000 for security services. 
 
 The company’s invoices, attached to the suit, show that it billed Zimmerman and O’Mara $66,000 for 21 days of protection — an average of more than $3,100 a day — even though Zimmerman was still in the Seminole County Jail during seven of those days. 
 
 During one five-day period, the agency billed Zimmerman and O’Mara more than $5,100 a day, the invoices show. 
 
 O’Mara said last week that he paid the company $40,000, that the charges appeared to be exorbitant and that he never signed a contract. Zimmerman is now being protected under a plan that costs $700 a week, O’Mara said. 
 
 Stephen Milbrath, the Orlando attorney who filed suit, said O’Mara was bound by an oral contract. The bodyguards took on a challenging assignment: to make a high-profile, widely hated man invisible and safe. 
 
 Zimmerman, a 29-year-old Neighborhood Watch volunteer, has said he acted in self-defense, but the killing ignited racial tensions and sent thousands of people to the streets at rallies across the country. It prompted hate mail and death threats — and not just to Zimmerman but also to his parents, who abandoned their Lake Mary home and went into hiding. 
 
 Zimmerman is now free on $1 million bail, living with his wife and a different bodyguard at a secret location in Seminole County, his whereabouts tracked by a GPS device. It’s not a happy life, according to O’Mara. Zimmerman is jobless, isolated and mostly stays indoors. His weight has ballooned. 
 
 The bodyguards’ lawsuit, filed Dec. 21 in state circuit court in Orange County, shows the lengths to which Zimmerman has gone to stay out of sight. 
 
 On June 28, according to the suit, O’Mara phoned Chris M. Rumbaugh, an Orlando private detective and former Orange County deputy, undercover drug agent and SWAT team member. 
 
 Zimmerman was likely to be released from jail soon and needed a way to safely disappear then receive around-the-clock protection. 
 
 Rumbaugh’s company put together the plan, according to the court documents. It’s not clear whether it was fully carried out. He did not return a phone call Thursday; neither did O’Mara. But the plan called for Zimmerman, his wife Shellie, other family members and at times, O’Mara to be protected by a seven-member team of bodyguards. 
 
 The guards would take eight- or 12-hour shifts and live in a room next to the Zimmermans, at a tourist-area hotel equipped with a kitchenette, records show. The agency billed Zimmerman and O’Mara for around-the-clock protection from June 29 to July 18, the invoices show.
– Police records released yesterday are painting a picture of George Zimmerman's period on bond, and they contain some interesting details. The neighborhood watchman ordered a bulletproof vest and an infrared home security system, the AP reports. A police supply sales representative told officials about the order; Zimmerman told them the gear was for his own safety. He called the infrared device "an extra layer of security at the point of entry at his residence," the records say, via USA Today. Zimmerman wore a GPS ankle device during the period, which he often complained was uncomfortable, prompting authorities to adjust it. He and his wife moved at least three times last year, the records indicate, and he told police the couple would be changing their phone numbers after the media got hold of hers. Meanwhile, in accordance with directions, he phoned police every other day between 10am and noon to check in. At one point, deputies noted a trip to a sporting goods store and checked the store's surveillance video to ensure he hadn't entered the gun section.