During initial meetings of the CJAB, participants identified many areas of concern within the criminal justice system and recognized the following critical matters facing the county's criminal justice system. Those matters included the following: mental health problems, performance measures and evaluation, drug and alcohol difficulties, transitional housing dilemmas and the development of a county shooting range. After some discussion about these topics, transitional housing was combined with the mental health initiatives.

As a result of identifying these four critical issues of the local criminal justice system, the first long term ad hoc committees of the CJAB were established: the Mental Health Committee and the Shooting Range Committee. The JNET Advisory Committee was also created as a subcommittee of the standing CJAB Technology Committee.

After a review process, which occurred in the second year of the CJAB, two additional ad hoc committees were organized: the Central Booking Committee and the Drug and Alcohol Committee. Early in 2009 the Central Booking Committee successfully completed the task of creating a Central Booking Plan for the County and, upon its completion, the committee was disbanded. During 2009 the CJAB created two additional ad hoc committees: the Court Efficiency committee and the Constable committee to address concerns in these areas within the county.

At the April 2010 CJAB meeting both the Drug and Alcohol and Mental Health committees' status were changed to CJAB standing committees due to the ongoing nature of their respective issues. These changes were reflected in an updated version of the Adams County CJAB's by-laws.

Throughout 2011, 2012 and 2013 the Adams County CJAB continued to make progress on several areas of concern through the diligent work of their sub-committee structure. The sub-committee structure currently consists of an Executive Committee, four (4) standing committees (Policy, Technology, Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol), and four (4) ad-hoc committees (Justice Reinvestment, Warrants, COOP, and Children of Incarcerated Parents).

The sub-committee structure has aided in providing the groundwork of support for several projects over the CJAB's first nine years. This structure has also allowed for the participation of many more individuals in the CJAB that would have been possible otherwise. This includes members from within the criminal justice system of the county as well as members of interested community organizations and agencies. The benefit of this increased participation is the escalated draw on talent that exists within the County of Adams and far greater use of limited resources for the community.

In February of 2014 there was an organizational change that occurred when the coordination responsibilities of the CJAB were placed under the newly created Department of Operational Services and the coordinator position was changed to the Director of Resource Development. This change has aided in the goal of using the County's criminal justice resources in a more efficient and responsible manner and has helped in moving the CJAB forward.

Many major projects are still being successfully worked on by the CJAB and its subcommittees including the Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) program, the Heroin Awareness Taskforce, and various technology issues including work on a virtual warrant process and video conferencing improvements within the court system.