Chief executive John Stephenson says Essex will never publicly name former players and staff members allegedly involved in racist behaviour.
The club have been charged with breaching England and Wales Cricket Board rules relating to racist language or conduct between 2001 and 2010.
The case will now be heard by an independent Cricket Discipline Commission.
Stephenson told BBC Essex Sport that a decision over whether to admit the charge would be taken at a board meeting later this week.
Essex commissioned their own inquiry into the issues, culminating in a report by Katharine Newton KC, published in December, which concluded that a number of the club's former players were victims of racist abuse and discriminatory treatment.
Jahid Ahmed, Maurice Chambers and Zoheb Sharif were among those whose allegations prompted the inquiry, but the report did not identify any victims or perpetrators by name.
"That?s never going to come out," said Stephenson.
"We have to think about the welfare of the individuals - we've taken a lot of advice on that in terms of data privacy and there will be nothing more said on that."
Stephenson has been chief executive at Chelmsford since the autumn of 2021, having previously worked for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
How will anyone know if any punishments have been instigated, if nobody knows was proved guilty ?
