Abstract: An electro-manual drawer latch for a drawer which in a manual mode locks the drawer when the drawer is pushed into a housing and unlocks the drawer when the drawer is again pushed into the housing and which in an electrical mode prevents the drawer from being manually unlocked by pushing in on the drawer but which unlocks the drawer in response to an electrical signal, the latch including a housing, a drawer slidably mounted in the housing, the drawer having a latch for locking the drawer in housing, a spring disposed between the housing and the drawer for biasing the drawer out of the housing, a locking mechanism disposed in the housing for engaging the latch when the drawer is pushed into the housing to thereby lock the drawer in the housing, the locking mechanism being operable to disengage the latch in either a manual mode in response to a manual push on the drawer or an electrical mode in which manual unlocking of the drawer is prevented and instead the drawer is unlocked in response to an electrical sig