The Department of Indigent Defense Services provides oversight to criminal defense services provided to indigent persons in this state. The department has several mandated duties including adopting regulations governing indigent defense services; provide training for indigent defense attorneys; collect uniform reporting from indigent defense attorneys; if necessary, provide for the transfer of responsibility for the provision of indigent defense services from a county to the Public Defender; allow such services to be transferred back to the county in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Statutory Authority: NRS 180 and 260.