Jenefer Hughes

Chesterfield’s commissioner of the revenue has declined an offer by the county’s internal auditor to perform “an extensive review” of the circumstances under which her office inadvertently revealed the Social Security numbers of nearly 2,300 local taxpayers last month.

Jenefer Hughes, who was elected commissioner in November 2017, has accepted full responsibility for the mistake. She concluded an audit wasn’t necessary because she and her staff already had handled the matter internally and put in place procedural controls to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

The commissioner of the revenue’s office assesses taxes through...