The Office of Defense Services (ODS) was established in 2015 by Senate Bill 47. The ODS is comprised of three divisions: Central Administration, the Public Defenders Office, and the Office of Conflicts Counsel. The Office of Defense Services was established, in part, to expand and restructure Delaware’s public indigent defense system. As a result, the ODS can better defend clients while furthering the vision for indigent defense. For the last several years, including in 2019, the ODS was named by the News Journal as one of the top workplaces in Delaware.